A native erlang implementation of D-Bus

D-BUs is now largely used in a lot of applications for language-independant, object-oriented RPC system.

The erlang platform needs an erlang native implementation.

Documentation

• API documentation
• Manuel

Current status

The status:

• consume D-Bus services: ok
• connect through TCP and UNIX socket: ok
• connect through kernel: not ok (but can use unix socket emulation)
• tested: ok.
  • erocci_backend_dbus includes a Python service with which eorcci_backend_dbus can interact
  • Another implementation of the same D-Bus interface is used in another project (Java): https://github.com/gibello/erocci-dbus-java

TODO:

• expose D-Bus services
• some authentication mechanisms are not implemented, but architectures allows for easy extension (see https://github.com/lizenn/erlang-dbus/blob/master/src/dbus_auth_cookie_sha1.erl, https://github.com/lizenn/erlang-dbus/blob/master/src/dbus_auth_external.erl and https://github.com/lizenn/erlang-dbus/blob/master/src/dbus_auth_anonymous.erl)
• more doc, more examples
• more tests: unit tests regarding (un)marshaling would be really great, even if the above mentioned xample has rather complex interfaces which works both with Python and Java implementations
• provide facilities for standard interfaces: Properties, ObjectManager, etc.